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                <p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_1"><a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/greenbacker-vita.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/greenbacker-vita.pdf">PDF version</a> | <a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/greenbacker-resume.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/greenbacker-resume.pdf">one-page resume</a><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_2"><br />Research Interests<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Abstractive Summarization, Referring Expression Generation, Knowledge Representation, Assistive Technologies.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_2"><br />Education<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">PhD student in Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware.<br />        Passed Preliminary Examination, January 2010.<br />        Advisor: <a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mccoy" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mccoy">Kathleen McCoy</a>.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">MS in Computer Science, University of Delaware, 2009.<br />        Research area: Natural Language Processing.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">BA <span class="style">magna cum laude</span> in Computer Science, Iona College, 2004.<br />        Honors thesis title: “In Defense of Artificial Intelligence.”<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Overseas Visiting Student in Philosophy, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, 2002 - 2003.<br />        Focus in philosophies of mind, language, and artificial intelligence.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_2"><br />Professional Experience<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">August 2007 - present, Research Assistant &amp; Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">June 2008 - November 2010, Graduate Intern, Artificial Intelligence Group, Information &amp; Knowledge Technologies Unit, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">August 2004 - September 2007, Communications &amp; Computer Systems Officer, United States Air Force, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Highest rank achieved: First Lieutenant. Honorable discharge.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_2"><br />Awards and Honors<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Travel Award for Global Research, Internships, and Performances, University of Delaware, 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Alumni Enrichment Award, University of Delaware Alumni Association, 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in Computer Science, University of Delaware, 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Professional Development Award, University of Delaware, 2009 &amp; 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Full graduate support provided by University of Delaware, 2007 – present.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Distinguished Graduate &amp; Top Scholar Award, USAF Technical Training, 2005.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Outstanding Academic Performer, USAF Leadership Training, 2005.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society, Iona College Chapter, 2004.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Blackfriars Fellowship, University of Oxford, 2002 – 2003.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Deans’ Scholarship, Iona College, 2000 – 2004.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Service Activities</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Program Committee, EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation and Evaluation (UCNLG+Eval), 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Science Fair Judge, John R. Downes Elementary School (Newark DE), 2010 - 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Secondary Reviewer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Professional Organizations</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Association for Computing Machinery.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS).<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Association for Computational Linguistics.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Publications<br /></span></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Improving the Accessibility of Line Graphs in Multimodal Documents,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy, Stephanie Elzer, David D. McDonald, Daniel Chester, and Seniz Demir. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies</span> (SLPAT 2011). (to appear)<br />        [<a title="http://slpat2011.computing.dundee.ac.uk/papers.html" href="http://slpat2011.computing.dundee.ac.uk/papers.html">http://slpat2011.computing.dundee.ac.uk/papers.html</a>]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“A Corpus of Human-written Summaries of Line Graphs,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Sandra Carberry, and Kathleen F. McCoy. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Language Generation and Evaluation</span> (UCNLG+Eval). (to appear)<br />        [<a title="http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11/programme.html" href="http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11/programme.html">http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/ucnlg11/programme.html</a>]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Towards a Framework for Abstractive Summarization of Multimodal Documents,” Charles F. Greenbacker. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 Student Session</span>, pp. 75-80, Portland, Oregon, June 2011.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Student_2011.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Student_2011.pdf">pdf</a> (233 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Abstractive Summarization of Line Graphs from Popular Media,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Kathleen F. McCoy. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop on Summarization for Different Genres, Media and Languages</span>, pp. 41-48, Portland, Oregon, June 2011.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Summarization_2011.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Summarization_2011.pdf">pdf</a> (172 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Semantic Modeling of Multimodal Documents for Abstractive Summarization,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Kathleen F. McCoy, Sandra Carberry and David D. McDonald. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the Canadian AI 2011 Workshop on Text Summarization</span>, pp. 29-40, St. John’s, Newfoundland, May 2011.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CanadianAI-Sum_2011.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CanadianAI-Sum_2011.pdf">pdf</a> (1.1 MB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“‘If you’ve heard it, you can say it’ – Towards an Account of Expressibility,” David D. McDonald and Charles F. Greenbacker. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference</span> (INLG 2010), pp. 185-190, Trim, Ireland, July 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010a.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010a.pdf">pdf</a> (307 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“UDel: Refining a Method of Named Entity Generation,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Nicole L. Sparks, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Che-Yu Kuo. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference</span> (INLG 2010), pp. 239-240, Trim, Ireland, July 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010b.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010b.pdf">pdf</a> (127 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“UDel: Named Entity Recognition and Reference Regeneration from Surface Text,” Nicole L. Sparks, Charles F. Greenbacker, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Che-Yu Kuo. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference</span> (INLG 2010), pp. 241-242, Trim, Ireland, July 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010c.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010c.pdf">pdf</a> (127 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“UDel: Generating Referring Expressions Guided by Psycholinguistc Findings,” Charles Greenbacker and Kathleen McCoy. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation</span> (UCNLG+Sum 2009), pp. 101-102, Singapore, August 2009.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/UCNLG+Sum_2009a.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/UCNLG+Sum_2009a.pdf">pdf</a> (76 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“UDel: Extending Reference Generation to Multiple Entities,” Charles Greenbacker and Kathleen McCoy. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation</span> (UCNLG+Sum 2009), pp. 105-106, Singapore, August 2009.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/UCNLG+Sum_2009b.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/UCNLG+Sum_2009b.pdf">pdf</a> (75 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Feature Selection for Reference Generation as Informed by Psycholinguistic Research,” Charles F. Greenbacker and Kathleen F. McCoy. In <span class="style">Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions</span> (PRE-CogSci 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2009.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/PRE-CogSci_2009.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/PRE-CogSci_2009.pdf">pdf</a> (94 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_2"><span class="style_2">“In Defense of Artificial Intelligence,” Charles Greenbacker. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, May 2004.<br />        [</span><a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/Undergrad_Thesis.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/Undergrad_Thesis.pdf" class="style_2">pdf</a><span class="style_2"> (292 KB)]<br /></span></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_4"><span class="style_2"><br /></span></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_4">Posters<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Towards a Framework for Abstractive Summarization of Multimodal Documents,” Charles F. Greenbacker. ACL-HLT 2011 Student Session, Portland, Oregon, June 2011.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Student_2011_poster.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Student_2011_poster.pdf">pdf poster</a> (7.3 MB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Abstractive Summarization of Line Graphs from Popular Media,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, and Kathleen F. McCoy. ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop on Summarization for Different Genres, Media and Languages, Portland, Oregon, June 2011.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Summarization_2011_poster.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-Summarization_2011_poster.pdf">pdf poster</a> (7.7 MB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Abstractive Summarization of Multi-modal Documents,” Charlie Greenbacker. Fourth Annual Computer Science Research Day, Department of Computer &amp; Information Sciences, University of Delaware, November 2010. (also presented at 1st Annual Graduate Student Forum, University of Delaware, May 2011)<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/Greenbacker_CS_Day_2010.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/Greenbacker_CS_Day_2010.pdf">pdf abstract</a> (115 KB)] [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CIS_poster_10.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CIS_poster_10.pdf">pdf poster</a> (3.9 MB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“‘If you’ve heard it, you can say it’ – Towards an Account of Expressibility,” David D. McDonald and Charles F. Greenbacker. Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Trim, Ireland, July 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010_poster.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/INLG_2010_poster.pdf">pdf poster</a> (336 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“UDel: Named Entity Generation, Recognition, and Regeneration,” Charles F. Greenbacker, Nicole L. Sparks, Kathleen F. McCoy, and Che-Yu Kuo. Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Trim, Ireland, July 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/GREC_2010_poster.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/GREC_2010_poster.pdf">pdf poster</a> (291 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Expressibility and Reversible Natural Language Processing,” Charles F. Greenbacker. Fourth North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI 2010), Amherst, Massachusetts, April 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/Greenbacker_NESCAI_2010_final.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/Greenbacker_NESCAI_2010_final.pdf">pdf abstract</a> (225 KB)] [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/NESCAI_2010_poster.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/NESCAI_2010_poster.pdf">pdf poster</a> (348 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Psycholinguistic-inspired Feature Selection for Reference Generation,” Charlie Greenbacker and Kathy McCoy. Third Annual Computer Science Research Day, Department of Computer &amp; Information Sciences, University of Delaware, September 2009.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CIS_poster_09.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CIS_poster_09.pdf">pdf poster</a> (708 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“The ICICLE Project: An Overview,” Charlie Greenbacker. First Annual Computer Science Research Day, Department of Computer &amp; Information Sciences, University of Delaware, February 2008.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ICICLE_CS_Research_Day_08.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ICICLE_CS_Research_Day_08.pdf">pdf poster</a> (123 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_4"><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_4">Presentations<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Discrete vs. Continuous Rating Scales for Language Evaluation in NLP,” Charlie Greenbacker. Given (on behalf of Anja Belz and Eric Kow) at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland, Oregon, 21 June 2011.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-HLT_2011_BelzKow_slides.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/ACL-HLT_2011_BelzKow_slides.pdf">pdf slides</a> (1.1 MB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Named Entity Generation, Recognition, and Regeneration,” Charlie Greenbacker. Given at Special Interest Group – Natural Language Processing (SIG-NLP), University of Delaware, 11 October 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/SIGNLP_F10.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/SIGNLP_F10.pdf">pdf slides</a> (1.7 MB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Combining Computational and Empirical Approaches to Reference Generation,” Charles F. Greenbacker. Given at Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference, University of Delaware, 5 March 2010.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CSGSC_10_abstract.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CSGSC_10_abstract.pdf">pdf abstract</a> (57 KB)] [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CSGSC_10.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/CSGSC_10.pdf">pdf slides</a> (442 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Building Language Understanding Applications and Reversible NLP with Sparser,” Charlie Greenbacker. Given at Special Interest Group - Natural Language Processing (SIG-NLP), University of Delaware, 5 October 2009.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/SIGNLP_F09.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/SIGNLP_F09.pdf">pdf slides</a> (172 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">“Feature Selection for Reference Generation as Informed by Psycholinguistic Research,” Charles F. Greenbacker and Kathleen F. McCoy. Given at the 2009 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-CogSci 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29 July 2009.<br />        [<a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/PRE-CogSci.pdf" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~charlieg/pubs/PRE-CogSci.pdf">pdf slides</a> (479 KB)]<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Meetings Attended</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">49th Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland, Oregon, June 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2011, St. John's, Newfoundland, May 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">1st Annual Graduate Student Forum, University of Delaware, May 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">4th Annual Computer Science Research Day, University of Delaware, November 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Trim, Ireland, July 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">10th International Conference on TAG and Related Formalisms (TAG+10), Yale University, June 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">4th North East Student Colloquium on AI (NESCAI 2010), University of Massachusetts, April 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2010 Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference, University of Delaware, March 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">3rd Annual Computer Science Research Day, University of Delaware, September 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CogSci 2009 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-CogSci), Amsterdam, August 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2nd Annual Computer Science Research Day, University of Delaware, December 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">1st Annual Computer Research Day, University of Delaware, February 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Research Experience</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2008 - present, Abstractive Summarization of Multimodal Documents from Popular Media for People with Visual Impairments (PhD thesis work).<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2010 - present, <a title="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/SIGHT/main.html" href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~demir/SIGHT/main.html">Summarizing Information GrapHics Textually</a> (SIGHT). Supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research under Grant No. H133G080047.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2009, <a title="http://www.bbn.com/technology/immersive_learning_technologies/virtual_role_player" href="http://www.bbn.com/technology/immersive_learning_technologies/virtual_role_player">Virtual Role Player</a> (VRP), conversational dialogue for military checkpoint operations in immersive learning environment. Raytheon BBN Technologies.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2008 - 2010, <a title="http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/genchal10/grec/" href="http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/genchal10/grec/">Generation of References in Context</a> (GREC), production of referring expressions.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2008 - 2010, Plan Order Induction by Reasoning from One Trial (POIROT), <a title="http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/il/il.asp" href="http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/il/il.asp">DARPA Integrated Learning Program</a>. Raytheon BBN Technologies. DARPA IPTO contract FA865 0-06-C-7606.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">2007 - 2008, <a title="http://www.eecis.udel.edu/research/icicle" href="http://www.eecis.udel.edu/research/icicle">Interactive Computer Identification and Correction of Language Errors</a> (ICICLE).<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Teaching Experience</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 275: Introduction to Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 404/604: Logic in Computer Science, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 475/675: Advanced Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 275: Introduction to Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 475/675: Advanced Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 663: Operating Systems, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 475: Advanced Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 481/681: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 475/675: Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 101: Introduction to Computer and Information Systems, Teaching Assistant, Winter 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 361: Operating Systems, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 475: Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Graduate Coursework</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 889: Applications of Natural Language Processing, Prof. Keith Trnka, Spring 2011.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 889: Empirical Methods for Computer Science, Prof. Benjamin Carterette, Spring 2010.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">EDUC 665: Elementary Statistics, Prof. Ratna Nandakumar, Fall 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 604: Logic in Computer Science, Prof. John Case, Spring 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 883: Natural Language Generation, Prof. Kathleen McCoy, Spring 2009.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 621: Algorithm Design and Analysis, Prof. Errol Lloyd, Fall 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 650: Computer Networks, Prof. Chien-Chung Shen, Fall 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 672: Compiler Construction, Prof. John Cavazos, Fall 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 663: Operating Systems, Prof. Martin Swany, Spring 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 889: Statistical Natural Language Processing, Prof. Vijay Shanker, Spring 2008.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 601: Elements of the Theory of Computation, Prof. John Case, Fall 2007.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 681: Artificial Intelligence, Prof. Sandra Carberry, Fall 2007.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">CISC 882: Natural Language Processing, Prof. Kathleen McCoy, Fall 2007.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3"><br /><span class="style_1">Technical Qualifications</span><br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Languages: Java, Lisp, Perl, Python, C/C++, XML, HTML/CSS, PHP, JSP, Javascript, Bash, SQL.<br /></p>
                <p class="paragraph_style_3">Software: Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, Eclipse, SVN, Git, various NLP toolkits.<br /></p>
                <p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_3">Security Clearance: SECRET, Date of Investigation: 14 September 2004.</p>
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